Life is Either a Daring Adventure or Nothing At All: February 2010

above: our unofficial cardboard/duct tape yardstick measuring 23" of snow

Happy Snow Day! I just figured I should update my blog since many of you are asking about the BLIZZARD of 2010! DC has been outrageous over the past week. Last Thursday was a normal day up until I went to the grocery store at 10:30pm to grab a few things to eat and drink over the weekend (the cafeteria food gets really old really quickly). I went there with 3 friends and we had never seen such a sight! The entire grocery store was PACKED! So many people stocking up on every kind of food and drink item. I figured this is what grocery stores would look like in 2012 when the apocalypse strikes. There was barely anything left on the shelves and people were waiting in lines that stretched from the front check out counters to the back of the store! It was insanity! I had to wait an hour just to buy like 3 items. Ridiculous!

Gallaudet closed on Friday at noon, which meant I had to run several errands before the whole place shut down for the impending storm. DC declared a snow emergency and shut down many streets for plowing and such. The snow began about 11am on Friday and did not stop until Saturday evening. It really was a blizzard with the winds whipping and the snow being so difficult to see through (I think visibility was about 1/4 mile most of the time).

As many of you know, I'm a southern girl. Born in Florida, raised in Alabama and North Carolina. Snow to me is 1 inch of white stuff covering the pine straw outside. The most I had ever seen prior to this weekend was 20 inches back in the late 90s in NC (I think that was the same storm that my brother cracked his eyebrow wide open in). This DC storm trumped that one. There are several measurements from around DC, but I believe we got about 26 inches or so here.

I was glad I live in a dormitory because I had several of my friends here with me to hang out with and play Wii with on Friday and Saturday despite the snow storm outside. I also got to watch the Super Bowl with my suitemate, Krystin, and some other friends without having to travel outside.

School (and internship) have been canceled for me today so I am enjoying the day by catching up on schoolwork (and I watched Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets this morning! I hadn't seen the movie since I read the book over Winter Break). They are calling for another snow storm to hit DC tomorrow (Tuesday) which should bring another 5 inches to the area. I'm not sure when I'll have class or internship again...but I'm not worried about it yet! Haha!!

Just wanted everyone to know that I'm safe and sound. Every time I speak to my mom she sounds so worried about me in the snow. I promise I'm not driving in this!

Here are some pictures that I have taken out my window of each day (Friday-Monday) to show the progression of snow, plus a few at the bottom of me and my suitemates, Nicole & Heidi, playing in the snow on Saturday! The snow came up above our knees which made it difficult to walk and hilarious to try and run in!